Bib overalls



July 31, 1923. 1,463,748

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BIB OVERALLS.

Application filed March 25, 1921. Serial No. 455,692.

To (ZZZ 107mm 2'7, may concern:

Be it known that l, WVALTER C. MAsTIN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at San .Prntonio, in the county of Boxer and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bib Oven alls, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide bib overalls and garments of a like character in connection with which shoulder. or Suspender straps are employed with means for preventing contact of the buckles, button loops and like metallic parts of the shoulder straps from coming into contact with the shirt of the wearer of the garment and from bearing against the body of the wearer unc er such conditions as to involve chafing and bruising by reason of the movements of the body; and more particularly to provide means for the purpose indicated which may readily be applied to the shoulder or suspender straps, and so located with reference thereto as to insure their retention in the proper positions regardless of the movements of the wearer and without requiring special attention or adjustment; and with these objects view the invention consists in a constructionand combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in wherein t Figure 1 is a front View of a port-ion of a garment having shoulder straps fitted with protective means constructed and arranged in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a detail view in perspective of one of the shoulder straps having the protective means applier thereto, with the parts rpread or disposed in loose relation to indicate the positions thereof.

Figure 3 is a perspective detail view illustrating the protective tongue which disposed behind the buckle.

Figure l is a perspective view of the protective tongue which is disposed behind the button loop.

The invention is shown applied to a gun ment of the bib overall type having shoulder v straps 10 of which the body portions 11 are attached at their rear ends to the back of the garment while the front portions thereof are connectible with the front of the garment by means of button loops 12 for. engaging the buttons 13, each shoulder strap having an adjustable extension 14:, usually integral with the body portion but of the accompanying drawings,

slightly reduced width, doubled upon itself to form a loop with the extremity thereof carrying a buckle 15 for adjustable engagement with the body portion of the strap, the loop of the strap extension passing through the button loop which therefore has a running. engagement therewith, and the size of the strap loop being variable to adjust the effective length of the shoulder strap so as to support the garment in the proper relation with the body of the wearer. Arranged in rear of the buckle and the button loop which are usually and preferably of metal or like durable material of relative rigidity, and hence interposed between said parts and the body of the wearer or the shirt or like garment worn beneath the upper portion of the overalls are protective tongues 16 and 17, having running on gagement with the strap extension 14 and respectively attached to the body portion of the shoulder strap and engaged with the suspender button of the garment. The attachment of the tongue 16 may be effected by means of stitching as indicated at 18, and the length thereof is suflicient to occupy a position in rear of the buckle regardless of the adjustment of the loop in the Suspender strap, the free end thereof having the slot 19 through which the free end of the shoulder strap extension passes to provide for the required ad ustment thereof. The tongue 17 is likewise provided with a slot 20 for a similar purpose, so that in adjusting the shoulder strap the extension thereof will pass through the slots of the tongues and retain the latter in the proper positions without requiring any special adjustment or manipulation thereof.

Having described the invention what is claimed as new and useful is 2- The combination with an, adjustable shoulder strap for garments of the type in dicated having means for adjustably con necting the terminal, of the strap with the body portion thereof and abutton loop for engagement with the suspender button on the garment, of a protective tongue provided with a transverse slot through which the shoulder strap extends and having a button hole for engagement with the button a of the garment and disposed at the rear of said loop.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WALTER C. MASTIN. 

